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Article: Haiti Opposition Official Killed
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MICHAEL NORTON, Associated Press Writer
AP Online
04-28-2000
Haiti Opposition Official Killed
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- Attackers armed with machetes burst into the home of a local opposition campaign director this week and hacked him to death, a party leader said Friday, the latest killing in violence that has erupted ahead of legislative elections.
Ducertain Armand was killed Tuesday evening outside Thomazeau, a small town about 16 miles northeast of Port-au-Prince, said Marie-France Claude, mayoral candidate in the capital for the Haitian Democratic Christian Party.
Armand's body bore numerous machete wounds and his head was cut off, Claude said.
Armand ran the senate election ...